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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...descended upon London and environs. It was not a "London particular," but sufficient of a fog to make Philip Snowden, the Crippled Chancellor, hero of the pan-European money-squabble at The Hague (TIME, Aug. 12 to Sept. 9), look more gnome-like than ever as he stumped on his canes into No. 10 Downing St. for one of the most special Cabinet meetings in recent British history. Gnome-like also, or like a maimed goodwife from the fairy books, looked motherly Margaret ("Aunt Maggie") Bondfield, the Secretary of Labor, who had to be helped from her motor by chauffeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Voyage Exploratory | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...this hysteria?" charged Harvard undergraduates and graduates in general with an unwarranted and foolish optimism in regard to the approaching grid campaign. In fact he included in his indictment all football fans "within 50 miles of the sacred cod atop the state house." He says, "It begins to look as if Harvard might win all of its games by undergraduate and general fan edict before a single game is played. It is a hysteria of optimism which is not at all uncommon in college football circles. We can recall oh-so-great Yale and surely unbeatable Dartmouth teams of early...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/4/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard Gun Club will hold its first meeting of the current year this evening in the room of its president, M. M. Johnson '31 at 143 Westmorly, to discuss plans for the coming season and to look over new material for the team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Riflemen Make Bow | 10/1/1929 | See Source »

...startling words fell, embarrassed white members of the congregation looked from the corners of their eyes at the Negroes. One young Negress hurried out of the church crying into her handkerchief. In another pew an aged Negro bowed his head, did not look up during the rest of the service, then left hurriedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jim Crow Rector | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...studio for Mrs. Hutchins, who sculps, was improvised over the Swift garage. Max Epstein, chairman of General American Tank Car Corp., who donated and for whom was named the Epstein Dispensary, has given some $1,000,000 for an art center. For teachers and pictures the university must look elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prelude to Learning | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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